Guard Your Heart - Victoria Osteen

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You see, 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:53.640 if we're going to be everything that God intended us 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:57.280 to be, we've got to take captive the things. 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:59.800 That are going on in our mind, the thoughts that 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:01.840 are ruling our life. 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:02.880 You see. 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.480 We have to take captive of these thoughts because we 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.200 don't want these thoughts pushing us around. 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:13.240 We want to push our thoughts around. We want our. 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.960 Life to go in the direction of our thoughts. So 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:17.960 what does that mean? 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.600 That means we have to be on guard about what 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:21.480 we're thinking about. 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:23.880 Listen, do you want your life to go in a 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:28.200 certain direction, Start thinking that direction, Start pushing your life 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:31.959 that way by the thoughts you're thinking. If you need 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:36.400 victory today, you need to start thinking overcoming thoughts. If 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:38.720 there's some areas in your life where you feel defeated, 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:39.720 you feel down. 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:41.720 Start thinking overcoming thoughts. 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.720 Start saying, if God be for me, who dare be 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:49.600 against me? He overcame so that I can overcome. In fact, 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:54.119 He's called me more than a conqueror in Christ Jesus. 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:57.800 You see, we've got to learn to recognize those thoughts 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:00.960 that are trying to defeat us. God wants us to 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.000 know that there are strategies and schemes that want to 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:07.120 come against us so that we can't fulfill our destiny. 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.720 Maybe you have low self esteem. Somebody's a planet, a 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:15.840 seed of thought in your life, and it's built itself 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:17.400 up and it's grown. 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:19.080 You can change that. 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:24.919 You can change your life by changing your thoughts. 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:26.200 But it's up to you. 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:29.320 And I see, no one can change our thoughts for us. 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:32.200 They can tell us all day that we can do it. 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:34.720 They can tell us that you know we have the 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:37.839 talent that God is for us. But until we take 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:43.320 responsibility for what's going on in our thought life, we'll 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.880 never get to the places that we want to be. 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:51.360 Fear, anxiety, worry, those. 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:56.480 Feelings that frustrate us and cause us to just react 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:59.160 in the wrong way. They try to control our lives. 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:03.200 You see, that is only because that's what we're thinking about. 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:09.200 We can't have conversations with fear anxiety. 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:14.480 We can't talk to worry. We've got to push it out. 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:17.560 Don't pull up a chair and have a conversation with 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:19.440 all these thoughts that are trying to. 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:20.400 Drag you down. 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:25.720 You have the final say. See the thoughts that are 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:27.359 most commonplace in our mind. 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:28.800 You know what happens. 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:32.160 We dwell on them, we think about them, and they 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:33.600 sink down into our hearts. 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:35.960 They become part of who we are. 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:40.719 See we can be doing something but thinking about something else. 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:45.680 See it, Sometimes our mind is just on autopilot. It 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.719 just goes, it goes, it goes, it goes, and we 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:53.239 allow all these thoughts to swirl in our head without 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:57.039 thinking about what we're thinking about. We have to guard 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:00.919 our thoughts. We have to guard it so that we 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:05.480 can protect our heart. The Bible says, above all else, 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:10.920 guard your heart. Guard your heart, because out of it 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.680 comes the issues of life. It says it like this 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:20.280 in one version, because everything you do flows from your heart. 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:22.680 You see, if you allow the. 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:26.640 Wrong thoughts to linger, they'll drop down to your heart 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:30.840 and they'll create an attitude and a perspective that. 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:35.400 You don't want. It's hard enough. Life is difficult enough. 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:39.760 There's too many things coming at us to approach it 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:44.240 with a negative attitude, with the wrong perspective. See, God 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:46.520 didn't say that this life was gonna be easy. 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:47.800 He didn't say I'm. 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.240 Gonna roll out the red carpet and you can walk 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:52.880 on it in flowery beds of ease. He says, No, 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.919 in this life you're gonna have some trouble. But be 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.960 of good cheer, be of good thought. 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:03.200 Be a good thought, for I have overcome the world. 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:08.320 You can think about that cheer is your thoughts. What 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:12.640 makes you happy, what you're thinking about, you see, be 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:14.479 of good cheer, be of good thought. 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:16.040 I've overcome the world. 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:20.360 God is saying, don't allow your thoughts to run rampant. 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.760 Think about what you're thinking about, because that's the direction 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.000 your life is going to take don't let thoughts push 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:30.560 you around. You begin to push your thoughts around. This 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:34.880 is an example of how we can develop attitudes. Okay, 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:38.680 so your husband does something that you don't like. You 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:42.600 begin to think about it. You really frustrate you. You're washing 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:45.280 the dishes and you're thinking about it. You're folding the 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.120 clothes and you're thinking about it. You're putting his socks away, 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:52.520 thinking he should be putting his own socks away. A 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:56.160 little while later, a couple days later, he does it again. 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.160 You roll your eyes. You say, this is never going 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.039 to change. He's always gonna be like this. He makes 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:09.640 me crazy. Then you start building this critical attitude. 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:11.119 Become a crazy woman. 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:17.720 You start building this critical attitude towards him. 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:21.240 See that's an attitude. It's been here so long, it's 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:22.600 sunk down in our hearts. 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:27.600 Now we're formulating an attitude, and we carry that attitude 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:32.360 with us. So every time they do something, we measure 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:39.280 their performance by this attitude, and it permeates our entire relationship. 0:07:40.440 --> 0:07:43.360 You know, the psychologists say that we project what's on 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:45.280 the inside of us onto others. 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:47.120 It's called projection. 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:51.000 You think someone doesn't like you, you begin to project 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:55.760 that you begin to flow from that space, in that 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.960 place that you've allowed to take root in your heart. 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.800 You know, some of you may have some thoughts that 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:06.360 have haunted you all your life. Maybe it wasn't your fault, 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:11.200 Maybe someone planted the wrong seed in your heart. Can 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:14.400 I tell you you can uproot, that you can change 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.720 your heart because you don't live under a curse. You 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:22.480 live under the blessing of God. You can change the 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:27.240 direction of your life by changing the direction of your thoughts. 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:32.400 You see, when you're thinking about how much your husband 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:36.960 irritates you, he does it again. You know you have 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:40.960 to say, Okay, where's this thought coming from? How can 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.080 I measure my thought? When you feel frustration, when you 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:48.720 feel anxiety, confusion, listen, those aren't God's thoughts. God says, 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:54.600 where there is anxiety, frustration, confusing, there is every form 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:58.280 of evil. What that means is the enemy is coming 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:00.800 in trying to confuse you, get you you off track, 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:05.560 take you down the wrong road. You see, it may 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:09.199 start small, but it can end big. And that's his plan. 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.560 You think about this just a minute. Here, You've destroyed. 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:16.680 Some relationships in your life and it started with one thought. 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.160 One thought created. 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:23.360 An attitude that brought confusion and evil into. 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:26.520 Your life above all else. 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:31.479 That sounds serious to me. That sounds like a priority. 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:35.160 That sounds like something that we better be attentive. Two, 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.000 we better watch out if we're going to live the 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.560 life God created us to live. Now, how do we 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.079 measure our thoughts? I mean, you know, I think all 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:43.839 kinds of thoughts. 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:45.600 How do I reel them in? 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.680 You see, thoughts will come all day long, all kinds 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:51.200 of thoughts. The thing is, we get to choose the 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.160 thoughts we want to keep. We get to choose the 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.600 thoughts we want to draw close to us that we 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.959 want to build our attitude on, to have our perspective, 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.320 to see our life through to filter. 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:04.319 We get to choose those thoughts. 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.760 But God's given us guidelines to measure those thoughts. 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:10.120 He doesn't even we don't even have to guess how 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:10.440 to do it. 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:13.640 He's already told us in Philippians for a he says, 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:18.439 to think on these things whatever is right, whatever's right 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:27.439 in the eyes of God, pleasing to him, noble, pure, lovely, admirable, excellent, praiseworthy. 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:30.840 These are the things that we're supposed to think on. See, 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:34.040 we're not going to naturally think on these things. It's 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.160 like programming your computer. When you go in, you put 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:39.280 all your information in your computer. You know, then your 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:41.840 computer is useful to you. You can pull up what 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.920 you need. When you begin to put God thoughts or 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:50.000 power thoughts in your mind, it's like you're programming your mind, 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:52.920 so when you need those thoughts, there's something to pull up. 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.760 When you put the good in, the good will come out. 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:02.839 That's the key. God has said, measure your thoughts. Don't 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:06.240 put your mind on autopilot. Hey, if it's not pleasing, 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.360 if it's not good, if it's not excellent, does it 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:12.360 mean that the people in your life are doing all 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:16.280 the right things. But you can change the atmosphere in 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:20.880 your mind when you're thinking the right thoughts. See, God 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:25.560 has given you the power to think his thoughts and 0:11:25.600 --> 0:11:29.720 to create your life around those thoughts. You can't control 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.880 anyone else, but you can surely control what you think. 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.319 You can control your attitudes. You can control the filters 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:37.160 that you use. 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:39.480 And that's the key. 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.320 If your life is not going in the direction that 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.640 you want today, I encourage you push your thoughts in 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.360 the direction that you want. God says he wants to 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:53.559 renew and transform your life, and it can start today. 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:58.600 The renewing and the transformation can take place as soon 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:00.880 as you choose the thought what you want to think. 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:05.280 So I encourage you today. Know that God is for you. 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.320 He's given you an outline for what you need to do. 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:13.200 Create possibilities in your mind. Don't go out with this 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:17.480 negative filter. Don't allow in this coming year to let 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:20.840 your thoughts push you around anymore, but you begin to 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:22.360 push your thoughts around. 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